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agement, groups of them might be organized 

 in such a way as to be of immense benefit from 

 the nursing and medical point of view. 



Much has been said about telephones, and 

 doubtless in some districts much has been done 

 with great advantage to the dwellers therein; 

 and, though I cannot speak with intimate know- 

 ledge on the matter, there seems a laudable 

 desire that this great boon should be extended 

 to every farmhouse as soon as possible, and I 

 believe there are some districts where this is the 

 case. But it seems to me there are many dis- 

 tricts where all reasonable immediate require- 

 ments would be met were the telephone carried 

 to the post offices, and that this should be 

 done without further delay. The difference 

 between having to go or send from two to 

 five miles to get into touch with a doctor or 

 nurse and anything from ten to fifty is too 

 obvious to need further mention, while from 

 a mere business point of view the saving of time 

 would be immense. 



One need only mention the necessity that often 

 arises of finding out if a parcel of goods or a 

 machine has arrived at a station, or if a spare 

 part of some broken implement has arrived or 

 is in stock, to illustrate the terrible waste of 

 time that often occurs in driving long distances 



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